The International Criminal Court’s March calendar illustrates why the Hague-based tribunal remains a deeply polarizing institution, two decades after its conception. Three appeals judgements next week deal with atrocities in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, and attacks against cultural treasures in Timbuktu, Mali. Later this month, trial hearings continue against Dominic Ongwen, a […]
Members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) have decisively voted in favor of entering a new coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, a party official says. The announcement was made at the SPD’s headquarters in Berlin on Sunday, after the results of a vote on forming the grand coalition showed that 66 percent […]
Friday’s attack on the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou is the fifth in a series of attacks on French embassies in Africa since 2000. Mauritania, 8 August 2009: Three people, two of them French gendarmes, were slightly injured in an Islamist bomb blast on the country’s embassy in the capital Nouakchott – the […]
The United Nations (UN) has stopped its relief operations in northeastern Nigeria following an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants that left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing. The UN said in a statement late on Friday that aid work had been suspended in the town of Rann in Borno State, […]
US President Donald Trump has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping after the ruling Communist Party reportedly declared plans to eliminate a two-term limit for the presidency, paving the way for Xi to serve indefinitely. In a closed-door fundraiser in the state of Florida on Saturday, Trump further expressed hope that the US may have a […]
Cameroon Concord News holds the considered opinion that the appointment of Paul Atanga Nji by the ailing and demented demonic dictator Paul Biya of neighbouring French Cameroun as his Minister of territorial administration is one step further in fine-tuning his genocidal war strategy against Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia. The appointment of Atanga Nji is aimed at maximizing the […]
A Malaysian official says the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a US company will likely end in June, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance with renewed hope that the world’s biggest aviation mystery will be solved. Malaysia in January inked a “no cure, no fee” deal with […]
A former US Senate foreign policy analyst say President Vladimir Putin’s state of the nation address, during which he unveiled an array of nuclear-capable weapons, sent a signal to the US and the West that Moscow stands ready to face them in the Cold War they seek to wage against Russia. In an interview with […]
The SouthWest region of Cameroon has imposed a month-long curfew on five out of six divisions / departments according to a release from the office of the governor. The March 1, 2018 document said the move was important given the exigencies of security, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of law and order. The […]
Two politicians from Anglophone Cameroon have been handed top cabinet positions in a government reshuffle on Friday evening. Dr. Nalova Lyonga was named Minister of Secondary Education whiles Atanga Nji Paul was appointed Minister of Territorial Administration which translates to the Interior Ministry portfolio. The Prime Minister Philemon Yang and Information Minister Issa Bakary Tchiroma […]
